The weather station is installed in the middle of the Thau pond (South of France, township of Marseillan). The power is supplied with a little incorporated solar panel, it's totaly autonomous. It's fitted out with a G.S.M. data module : Everyday, it calls a PC which concentrate the data and build a climatical database.

It's a G.S.M. station fitted out with a directionnal antenna (n°1 on pic) to improve the transmission quality.

It's equiped with the following sensors :

• A temperature / humidity sensor (n°2 on pic).
• A pyranometer for the global radiation measurement (n°3 on pic).
• A wind vane (n°4 on pic) and an anemometer allow to characterize the wind.
• A ultrasonic waterlevel sensor (n°5 on pic) allow to know with a very good accuracy the level of the pond water.
• A supplementary temperature for the water temperature.

• Creation of an historic database to improve the knowledge of the pond.
• Working of the pond modelling according to the meteorological parameters.
• Knowledge and studies of the seasons variations.
• Modelling of the meteorological data influence on the fishs, the algaes and the plankton.

Organism : ECOSYSTEMES LAGUNAIRES
UMR 5556 CC 093 Université MONTPELLIER II FRANCE

Contact : Bertrand BIBENT
E-mail : bbibent@hyd.univ-montp2.fr
Phone : (+33) 4 67 14 32 19
Web : http://www.univ-montp2.fr/serveurs/ecolag.html

Postal address :
Place E. Bataillon - 34095 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 05